Hosting Images on Amazon S3?

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Avalanche

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Couldn't get the forum search feature to let me search for that term even w/ quotes & googling didn't work so hoping someone here has some tips.

Am going to be running some contextual offers and wanted to host the images on my LP with Amazon S3 to save bandwidth on my VPS.

Anyone know of a good tutorial to get this going or have some tips on where to start w/ using Amazon S3?
 


Hey Avalanche,

Getting started with S3 is pretty darn easy:

1) Sign-up for S3 on the amazon developer website
2) Download the "S3 Organizer" plug-in for FireFox
3) Create a "bucket" to manage your files
3a) It's good to name your bucket after a subdomain, that way you can CNAME that subdomain to point to S3 without everyone knowing that your assets are hosted on S3

Example bucket name:
cdn.mydomain.com -- where mydomain.com would be your domain and cdn the subdomain.

As some extra stuff, if you need faster service, you can also scale these using their "Cloud Front" service, which is their cloud-based CDN.
 
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